บทวิจารณ์ล่าสุดโดย Smurfosaurus-Rekt

Edit: Its been 6 years since this review and 4 years since the last update... AVOID

Allows great customisation, but lots and lots of bugs make it a bit unplayable atm... Wait till BETA then buy it straight away :B

I liked it, good story, good gameplay and some great locations

I cried, I avenged my fallen kin, I cried for doing so

11/10 this game made me a 6 year old girl

Get M&B Warband, its better in EVERY way

Played 24 minutes:

- Bad port from Xbone
- Janky gameplay thats just frustrating
- NO tutorial whatsoever (I know thats now a dark souls thing, but having to check 15-17 times what the controls are is pretty damn annoying)
- Roll to dodge anything - no matter if it impales you mid air, as long as you're horizontal; its ok!

Thankfully I got a refund... But sad really as I enjoyed DS2, DS and DS the board game

My recommendation: Play DS 2 for less £££ /OR-AND/ Play the board game (great fun if you're into non-digital games)

Started off as the worst, now is literally the best (and I've played every TW game since Medival 1)

THIS GAME WILL NEVER DIE

Made an epic city of 200,000 people and became a billionaire...
90% of the people became too smart and decided to go somehwere else reducing my population to 20,000 and making me a minus billionaire...

10/10 would recommend

If you played simcity and enjoyed it but got annoyed at the stupidity of certain things, buy this game, and if i need to persuade you more: NO ORIGIN, NO EA, NO WORRIES

After reading lots of positive reviews of the game I kind of brought it... I had my dreams shattered before on the Rome II release day so I wasn't gonna buy this game until I knew it would not be a very polished turd; all in all, I'm not that disappointed, some things are left to be desired, but I'm sure they'll come around.

Pros:
- MANY gameplay fixes to problems that crippled Rome II
- A nice variety of factions, ranging from very easy ones that would be great for any beginner, and ones which would require Alexander the Great himself to even try and win a game with.
- Art style and visuals are pretty optimized so they look good on low settings and amazing on higher settings, they really don't disappoint even if you're playing on a "potatoe"
- Many stratergies that would work in real life and that you SHOULD have been able to use in Rome II you can use in battle will actually work this time
- New and exciting options when winning battles, should I ransom them, or use them to boost my own army as i did take a heavy hit in that battle... It requires more thought "do I want my king/daimyo/sultan/boss/fuhrer to be a ♥♥♥♥, or to be a nice guy" which got boring after 3 battles or so in previous games

Cons:
- The whole game was painted with a colour pallet from the genre "Depressing" and although I know that thats the theme (depression, desolation and famine) it not only makes it just dull to play but its also confusing because when all the units and every icon are the same freaking colour.... its hard to tell the difference between recruiting 1000 Noble Chief Beserkers and recruiting 1000 Mobs wielding spades and toothbrushes... And this can hinder you as you've probably guessed
- Its not really that fun, its immersive and allows you to truely do what you want, but there just so many new things which I really could not care less about; take govereners for example, now each time I capture a settlement in a new province I have to think about which person would be best to manage the goats there and how I would like to indoctrinate the goats, which is a rather big anti-climax
- Everythings really hard to see, I know I covered this in the first point but its worth mentioning again; army sizes are quite hard to tell but if you can see a bar, its probably big... if you can't see a bar, its probably small
- UI is pretty hard to navigate, with Attila they kept the same menu variations (Army levels, general levels, etc) they shuffled them round a bit, which is good, but not that everything is tucked away in different corners and theres info boxes which pop out of nowhere and you've been looking for them for the past 30 minutes... its a bit frustrating


All in all this game would get about a 7.5 on gameplay and 3 for design. LOTS of easy fixes which would make this game kick-ass and raise my score by for both of the above but we'll probably have to wait for mods for that, my advice though: Wait till this game is on sale for £25 or less and browse some mods before even launching it up for the first time

Just to give you bit of background about my previous experience with this game, played it while it was in ALPHA and when there was pretty much 4 guns for each side and tanks were about as rare as flying pigs, the game has come a long way since then and is actually starting to look like a proper game, and a good one at that! But unfortunatly its downhill from here: With the intergration into Steam its almost the devs have just thought, "£%$ it, lets get rich and ruin everything we've worked for!", I understand that a F2P game is supposed to be fun for spenders and people who don't want to spend real cash, I even think there SHOULD be an incentive to spend cash, the bonuses and "membership" I think are realistic, but after sending about £30 on a game I can tell you that not only is it pay2play, but the play sucks!

The Good

I LOVED this game for a while even in the BETA, it has lots of promise. The gameplay is fun! lots of fun, with tanks shuddering the ground beneath you and fighters swooping overhead its everything a war game should feel like! I think that when 1 person can single handedly take out a tank thats the moment I lose my ♥♥♥♥, as its ridiculous even the idea, maybe that 1 guy won't like it, but its how it should be, BUT lots of people shooting at it (to confuse the hitmarkers which IS REALISTIC when you think about the people inside the tank hearing "pings" from all over the tank) while 1 guy fires a bazooka at it, it works in game and in real life! The best thing about this game is how the combined arms work, if I see a tank and i'm alone then i know that to run up to it and piss it off would probably suicide, but if instead I let one of our tank guys know then he can flank while we draw its fire. Thats 1 example of many that i've actually had happen to me and it is an AWESOME feeling when you see that their tank squad has been completely wiped out and you know you had a part of it.

The Bad:

The economic situation is absurd, just to list some things that the in-game money is used for; restocking certain ammo, buying weapons, reparing equipment, restocking vehcile ammo. If you want any sort of good weapon then you'll have to know which one you want from the start and grind straight for it, otherwise you'll die of old age before you can make up your mind as to which one to get, unless you're willing to spend £150+ on a game with questionable-everything then i suggest a different one,

The Ugly:

The graphics are a start, but its a BETA. Some guns are so much overpowered, to a point where its a rare thing when you see anyone killed with a unlockable weapon, or even rarer, A STARTER WEAPON!!!The biggest shame for this game is the devs, they know what is going on and they know the extortionate prices in which they charge, but you need those really good items to win so either fork out for it or serve as cannon fodder while the rich-boy behind you gets all the kills, bear in mind that in the latest update they added the Thompson to the game, which is a great gun in real life, but when people are running past you blapping headshots left-right and center you do start to question why you downloaded the game, Its to a point where people will counter snipe with the boody things vs a sniper about 500m away, and they'll get headshots don't you worry.. BUT DON'T FRET! the thompson is availible for both Axis and Allies so now EVERY CAN PAY2WIN!

Saving grace:

I've picked up a dead guys Thompson and went on a 10 kill streak before by just running towards their enemy base and shooting things that move, but at about £10 for 1 simple gun its a bargain right!.... right?